Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-21
An Advance by the British Govern
ment Looking to the Settlement
of the Fisheries Question.
Premier Salisbury Handles Gladstone
Without Gloves in an Address Be
fore the Primrose League.
Mr.. Gladstone Anxious to Know the Min
ericaI Force of the Irish sympa-
thizers in America.
England.
THE FISHERIES MATTER.

SGatSu GudL LOIu OdIlSUuIys III uISOdICu
sent to Washington March "a, said
that the British government, understand
ing the action of the United States in de-
nOuncing the fishery articles of the treaty
of Washington to be in great degree the
result of disappointment at being called
upon to pay the E1,1OO,OO0 under the
! Halifax fisheries award offers to revert
to the old condition of affairs without
pecuniary indemnity, which offer it trusts
will commend itself to the American gov
eminent as being based upon that spirit
of good will and generosity which should
animate two great and kindred nations.
whose common origin, language and in
situations constitute as many bonds of
amitY and concord.
SALISBURY ON THE CRIMES ACT.
LONDON, April 20.-LOrd Salisbury in
an address delivered last night before the
I Primrose league at Albert's Palace, the
occasion being the sixth anniversary of
the death of the Earl of Beaconsfeld,
said the HRllOW agitation carried on dur
ing the Easter holidays by the opposition
! had failed and that the governments
cause was the Countrys. The govern
menU stood in Irelsud facing a vast ma
chine producing terrorism and crime,
against which the government intended to
struggle with all the powers Parliament
! would grant. Mr.. GladstOne's imagina
| ton deceived him when he attempted to
prove that his party's prospects were
very bright. The present Irish crimes
! bill would not begin to compare in strin-
genCy with Mr.. GlGdstOne's bill of 1881.
! Under the latter measure people were I'M
prisOned without trial. This could
not be done under the present bill. The
suppression of crime in Ireland did
not mean the suppression of liberty. A
| policeman in arresting Bill Sykes did not
! interfere with liberty, yet Mr.. Gladstone
condemned this crimes repression bill.
| The danger of the present day Law IN catch
words. Mr. Gladstone, who had spent
his life in changing his opinions men
toned those who separated from him in
the tone of 9 father leCtucing his
| children. He preached at and almost
prayed for them, but it never occurred
to mr. Gladstone that perhaps they had
something to complain of. They were
unable to change their opinions in night
like he could. Lord Salisbury prOphes:ed
that Mr.. Gladstone would find it diff
cult to gather around him any new re-
too far to reCede. What had Mr.. Gladstone
gained, asked the Premier. He had gained
eighty-siX very devoted followers of Mr..
ParneIl who had been challenged with
having approved of murder, and VINO re-
fused, or whose friends refused for him,
to enter the witness box and deny the
charges, and this course Mr. Gladstone
approved. MIR Parnell had been assisted
until fnn c1JbS bT1Y bn oIu
Gated murder. When a man was
accused in such manner
it was not open to him
to put the accusation aside with the
copious use of the elegant vocabulary his
friends had introduced into the House
of Commons. He was bound to enter the
witness box and answer any charges
against him most solemnly. How could
Mr.. Gladstone go before the country
associated with men who refused to
submit such question TO an English
jury. The speaker did not believe
in GladstOne's horoscope. The victory
Mr.. Gladstone obtained in 1880 was won
by food of misrepresentation that
could not be repeated. The COnserVa-
tiVes were now an organized party, pow
eTful to refute falsehOOd and to dissent
nate truth. This condition of the party
was largely due to the work of the Prim-
rose League. The present government
would, when it left office, hand down IN
impaired 10 their successors the great
trust the empire had committed to their
care. sCheers.
GLADSTONE ON AMERICAN SYMPATHY.
LONDON, April 2O.-Mr. Gladstone
writes: 81 attach very high value to the
importance of the manifestations now in
cessant in America, as colonial sympathy
with the Irish people in the crisis created
by the causeless, insulting, insdiOus bill
at present before Parliament. Apart from
particular ard more or less formal &C
acknowledgement s, am not of the opinion |
that it will be the proper form to take |
upon myself any general communication |
to America on this subject, which, !
however, | noticed and may again !
notice in Parliament. Still am very |
anxious that the people of this country |
should have the means Of understanding |
how much beyond the range of any sec
tiOnal impulses, and how truly national !
the movement in the United States has
become, and in this view |
would recommend that an envoy
be appointed to present some estimate of
the aggregate number of persons by |
which the recent meetings in America
have been attended. likewise especially |
the number of governors, mayors, sena-
tors, representatives, clergymen and other
officials or highly responsible persons by |
whom such meetings were countenanced |
or supported"
CHARGES MUST BE SUBSTANTIATED.
LONDON, April 2O.-Sir William Vernon !
Harcourt in a speech at East London to-
night Endorsed Earl Spencer's recent
assertion that there was no evidence |
which showed the Parnellltes ever asso-
ciated with criminals. In view of Par
nell's denial of the accusations made
against him it remained for his accusors
to substantiate their charges.
The Parnellites are indignant at Lord
speech at Albert Palace.
There is some talk of bringing his re-